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[Xperia Z1 General] Gitaroo:
I tthought the Xperia S was the first phone to have photoshere or the 360 degree camera shooting before google did.
[Xperia Z1 General] Morlock O:
was the first with panorama
[Xperia Z1 General] Pruikki:
had to login just to say

As title says!

USE LG CAMERA APP

free version or better pro!

i fixes all sony software issues!

takes good pictures then

the change is unbelievable!

makes my S3 better and Xperia S better too...made Htc Desire HD sharper too back inna day.:laugh:

so i recommend not to use sony camera app as sony is not finished with its software at all...yeah i know they had to hurry.(will be fixed partially during summertime via update to the kitkat build so long time to wait)

so use LG camera app. has all settings and so on....I approve.
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
You mind putting up the same image taken with lg camera app & sony stock app someplace like dropbox so we can see ?
[Xperia Z1 General] ashouhdy:
Note3 takes better pics than z1 ? how ? and in what situations ? iphone5s takes better shots ... maybe

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[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
DxO will not be reviewing the Note 3. Why ? they did not say.

I expect it will be little better than the S4 overall, if they take 4k video into consideration. But then the exynos versions don't have it.

This is the present stills chart. The low light ability of the s4 or note 3 is another matter of course. It's more the performance in better than low light and the camera being optimised for that light which gives it a little edge.

Rank	DxOMark Mobile Photo
----	--------------------
1	81	Nokia 808 PureView
2	79	Samsung Galaxy S4
3	79	Nokia Lumia 1020
4	78	Apple iPhone 5S
5	77	Sony Xperia Z1
6 77 LG G2
7 75 Nokia Lumia 925
8	74	Apple iPhone 4S
9	74	Apple iPhone 5
10	73	Samsung Galaxy Note II
11	73	Samsung Galaxy S III
12	68	GoPro HERO3
13	67	BlackBerry Z10
14	66	HTC 8X
15	64	Nokia Lumia 920
16	62	Sony Xperia Z
17	61	Samsung Galaxy S II
18	50	Apple iPhone 4
[Xperia Z1 General] Pruikki:
THE reply...

Well i cant put images but ill say the difference is in software side.

different app uses its own soft to make picture so...

Just try it Sir.

just saying what worked for me ,May it work for you too.:D
[Xperia Z1 General] dakunclear:
Okay so I have owned all three and the z1 is much more fluent and less stutter but here are some photos from the z1
[Xperia Z1 General] dakunclear:
Here is the only photo I could find with my g2 but it is a night shot
[Xperia Z1 General] |ErosizeD|:
Z1 better than 1020??? Wheree did you get that?? *****es plz....

And.i5s is not even close to z1.

Same for here.

The truth is:

1 Nokia 808

2 Nokia 1020

3 Nokia 1520

Then comes the rest.
[Xperia Z1 General] supermanman123:
the LG G2 has a sharper image. But in terms of color, I think the z1 manual is more vibrant in color. the color on the g2 seem kinda flat imo. And I like that more. Thats the reason why i got z1 when i already got the g2.
[Xperia Z1 General] guybrush2099:
S4 is really overrated

I tried it and Z1 is MUCH better

I'm agree these Nokia is better than Android best smartphones...
[Xperia Z1 General] crixley:
Hahaha really best smartphones?

Windows phone still has a lot of catching up to do imo..
[Xperia Z1 General] guybrush2099:
I'm talking about the camera :P

Z1 and the others good Android are much better for everything else :)
[Xperia Z1 General] crixley:
In that case I agree with you, but you also have to put things into perspective.

Look at the hump on the phone and how ugly it makes it.

Our sensor takes awesome photos and still manages to be flush with the rear.
[Xperia Z1 General] RyTekk:
Sony only take a good picture when you set manual, Superior Auto is like a ****.
[Xperia Z1 General] danw_oz:
Not quite sure about the language used, a bit un-necessary.

The truth is, the dxo test was done when the camera first came out, and it is a lot better than it was at that time with the updates.

IMO the iphone is the best all round for people just snapping photos, overall it just does a very good job under many different lighting situations. And is probably the easiest to edit the photo to make it look much better.

Best Resolution is obviously the Nokia, and the fine details therefore retained are superb.

IMO the Samsung phones camera, is really not that good in all around quality.

IMO The Sony phone is superb if you take manual control of it. Where I see a lot of people fall short here is keeping the camera still enough not to blur the shot, as I am sure the OP has done. From many comparison shots, occasionally I have seen the Sony trump the Nokia.

Comparing the Sony phone to other point and shoot camera out there today, it trumps almost all of them in terms of photo quality.

I am happy with my Sony phone, and I know that if I am out and about and need to take a snap that the phone will not let me down, which is not what I could have said about any phones I have owned previously.
[Xperia Z1 General] ckchan08:
i do agree that superior auto is crap... in early versions. after many firmware updates, i can't help but notice that the superior auto is getting better and better. manual mode is of course even better if you know how to set the correct settings. the camera on z1 have gone thru alot of improvement since its first release.
[Xperia Z1 General] RyTekk:
I have a problem with backligh shooter. Do you know how to fix it? First picture was taken by iHacker 4.1 (with DoomLord kernel), and another was taken by stock 108.
[Xperia Z1 General] Jay794:
The Z1 is definitely the best camera I've seen, and I used to have an S4, the only things that let the Z1 down are low light pictures and when you zoom more than half way, it gets pixely as hell
[Xperia Z1 General] ckchan08:
that "bar" in the second pic is caused by the light frequency/refresh rate... or something like that. i was told that it happens to many camera. it doesn't mean your camera is faulty or bad. maybe the iHacker camera have different setting that it didn't have this effect.
[Xperia Z1 General] RyTekk:
So dev's iHacker know how to fix it?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siciliano777:
In the past few days out of nowhere I've noticed a massive amount of battery life attributed to Google Services. I checked on better battery stats and the wakelocks are coming from process: NLPWakeLock.

I've searched on the net and several forums, and I'm getting very mixed info. The majority of the info points to Google Now as being the culprit, and that it's somehow related to 4.3. I actually really like Google Now and would hate to disable it. It's odd because I've had the phone a few weeks and Google Now was always enabled, but only now these wakelocks are starting to show up.

Does anyone have any further info on this? Could it be something else? I've already frozen so many things in TiBu I'm losing track!

TIA!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siciliano777:
I'd like to just confirm in case anyone else was having this issue - it was in fact Google now.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mynameismolotov:
So did you just freeze Now? I'm having the exact same issue -- was working fine until just recently (I think 3 days or so ago) when I started getting many wakelocks from NLPCollectorWakeLock and NLPWakeLock. I also like using Now and don't want to disable it if I can avoid it. I did find a thread in the G2 forums with a possible solution: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2453850

Basically, he deleted GooglePlayServices using Titanium, then reinstalled directly from the market and found that fixed his issue. So I just deleted it (phone auto rebooted after doing so), then got a notification saying Maps request an update of Play Services which I got from the market. Rebooting now, will keep an eye on the wakelocks and let you know how it goes.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siciliano777:
I didn't freeze it, I just turned it off within Google now settings. I'd like to keep it on too, but it def helped battery life.

Let me know if that method you used works.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] B4RNZ33:
Hi All,

Attachment 1 is how i have my dialler themed (all black background) -

I cannot for the life of me find the .png i need to change to make the call log and favorites adopt this same format (attachment 2,3)? its a blue/black mix and i want it swapped out - would also love to change the text to ICS like the rest of my APKs

anybody able to help me?

Also, if you look in attachment 4 - how can i change the white writing at the top right hand corner to ICS blue (everything on my phone is themed to be all black, ics blue text)

Im comfortable with editing RES, Xmls and ADB and im running Android 4.3, PA 3.97 (no theme engine) on an S3 international variant.

THANKS GUYS!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmp17:
Hi!

My Nexus 4 is stuck in headphones mode for a few months now. Sound on headphones is just fine. I tried cleaning 3.5mm jack, but no difference. I'm using SoundAbout app now to make phone usable, but it's anoying to manualy switch every time I plug in or out my headphones. I ordered new headphones jack from ebay for 8.95 pounds from UK (new user, can't post link)

I replaced it, but N4 is still stuck in headphones mode :( Before I replaced it I've done factory reset, but not yet after replacing.

Looking at the plug it seems like phone detects when headphones plug shorts two pins in connector that connects to the tip of headphones plug (pins are not shorted if connector isn't plugged in). It doesnt have a "switch" like some other connectors.

Phone was not even near water and I never dropped it on the ground.

What do you think it's wrong? Maybe damaged motherboard?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] keratos:
followed this to unlock bootloader - all went fine...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2447319

and this to flash recovery, all went well - except the instructions omitted to include the requirement to flash the img file using "fastboot flash boot ....img" (you cant "run" and img file!)

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/5...tra-clockworkmod-twrp-recovery-bootloader.htm

Switched off, back on again , holding volume up and voila the clockword recovery was available.

But when I rebooted and held the volume up again, no recovery mod, it seemed to be overwritten.

Had to flash the recovery image again to get into recovery, then lost it again on next normal boot??

Any ideas?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ƒεηιx:
Here is a new Boot animation Created by me Hope you like it :)

NEO V Boot Animation

NEO Boot Animation

Instruction

Just copy and paste required zip file to your sdcard,reboot into recovery mode and then flash the zip file Done :laugh:

To Download Please Check Attachments

Hit Thanks button to encourage my work :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ErecDeGraal:
It's cool. I will test it ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ƒεηιx:
Yup test it and report :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xperiaz2:
hey

gr8
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ƒεηιx:
Please hit the thanks button :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xperiaz2:
ok ;) :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ErecDeGraal:
Animation is really cool and it perfectly works on my neo V with LX 10.2 :good: :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ƒεηιx:
:thumbup: :)
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goldofaf:
It is possible to install any version of Linux natively on a kindle tablet?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wondrej:
asuming from this http://linuxonandroid.blogspot.cz/p/working-devices.html it is possible

but as said on http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/install

so there, you probably can, but android would still be better
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Goldofaf:
Thank a lot, I think i must pray for ubuntu touch work on kindle fire hd nearly...
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ph0enix_216:
The only software available for the Kindle Fire is the stock OS provided by Amazon, or any of the ROMs posted in the KFHD 7" Android Development thread. Any attempt to install any other software will brick your device with no way of fixing it.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adelyte:
does anyone have this problem?

my album app cannot load flickr's images. It has no problem loading (sync) facebook and picasa.

any idea?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adelyte:
nobody have this problem?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amazin:
Hi i have the exact same problem. Did you find a solution?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Johnday29:
I couldn't wait to get my hands on a 4.3 S4 rom so I could have fully functioning Galaxy Gear. I am currently running Sacs 4.3 v3. I am currently not receiving any notifications. I have read and searched many threads and forums. I have lock screen on so that is not an issue. I have all the notifications turned on under settings in Gear manager. I have factory reset my Gear multiple times. I have completely uninstalled gear manager and reinstalled. None of the changes have done anything for me and I am frankly getting irritated. On Sac v8 4.2 i was getting gmail and facebook alerts but even those are not functioning now. I was able to go into Samsung apps and download the latest version of Gear manager so at least the Samsung app store is recognizing 4.3. In short I'm not sure if there is something wrong with my Gear, the rom, or more than likely my self!!!!! The only thing I can think of is that one of the tweaks to the rom may have broken the passing of notifications to my Galaxy Gear. My next step Will be to install a stock rooted rom and see if that works, but haven't had the time and really really don't want to go with out Sacs Rom. Is there anything that needs to be left alone in a rom in-order to keep Gear function? Any help would be grateful.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] primo523:
I posted a message for sacs with this thread. Hopefully he will look into it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Johnday29:
Thanks.....I have been in contact with Sacs, he doesn't have a Gear for testing (wish I could just buy him one LOL), and I know he is so busy hate to bother him. I was hoping some one else that has a Gear and does rom development might be able to shed some light as to what may need to be added removed or left alone in order to have Gear compatibility in a rom. Again Im not even sure it is the rom. I will try to install stock this afternoon and see if that fixes things for me. This way I will know if it is the rom or something else.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] primo523:
Let me know if stock works. I too was waiting for 4.3. It was the only thing holding me back from buying it. I will wait to see.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] imdbui:
I'm running Sacs 4.3 v3 on Sprint GS4, notifications work fine on my Gear. Have you tried complete wipe and reflashing 4.3? Just about to load v3.1, I'll let you know how that goes.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Johnday29:
Please do.....I wonder if I have some app that is messing things up then?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] imdbui:
Okay I'm running Sac's 4.3 v3.1, with Gear Manager v1.4.102802 and Gear ROM ver. V700XXUAMII.

Tested these notifications and they work as expected:

-Incoming calls

-Missed call

-SMS

-Gmail

-Hangouts

Although I do disable these and use ATN Manager for the detailed Hangout and Gmail messages.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Johnday29:
Great I will do a clean install and see what I can figure out......like I said I knew it was probably me. Does the weather work on yours?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Johnday29:
Ok reinstalled sacs 4.3 v3 from scratch and installed samsung apps, then gear manager before restoring anything. Everything on the Gear works perfect.......so I deceided to test and see if it was the kernel. I installed KT's kernel and gear is still working. So in short I must be stupid because I am not sure what I did last time when I installed sacs 4.3. The only thing left to try is to reinstall my apps and see if that breaks the notifications. I will let you know how it goes.......Thanks for all your help.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] imdbui:
Glad you got it figured out. When all else fails... just wipe and reinstall from scratch.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dron_:
I've just boght my 9100 with russian ROM and russian keyboard layout. But I want to install the WWE one, cause I got used to having only English soft, and this ROM is much more fresh and stable as well. According to discussions here the most appropriate one is Qtek_9100_RUU_Prodigy_10107105_Qtek_WWE_ship.exe, isn't it? But, will I remain the ability to input text in russian? Is there any keyboard patch if not?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] fresh123breeze:
Don't worry about, just use one of soft keyboards like Qkeys or Resco

or try this:

http://www.ppclink.com

And don't forget to change "Regional Settings" :D
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] NabawiSiregar:
I have a problem and the problem is when i download samfirwares, it only gives me one file. im trying to bring my phone back to life by bringing it back to stock rom. but the problem is there's only one file which is an MD5 file. From all these tutorials i have seen, they all have like more files to put in odin such as files for pda, bootloader, pit, phone, csc etc... my galaxy sl i9003 is from UAE so i have the I9003JPKPM PDA or something. can someone please help me?

Sorry if you don't understand some parts, it's hard to explain.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] acuicultor:
Decompress those files and inside tou will see 5 files (bootloader, phone,modem,csc, latona.pit)
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] hassan.m:
The files are

boot.bin, cache.rfs, modem.bin, normalboot.img, param.lfs, Sbl.bin, system.rfs

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Any stable firmware. Kindly share the link.

Thank you in advance
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] shahzeb420:
Not every firmware have 5 or 4 files.

First download xxkpe it has all file and flash with odin and then download official ddlf2 value pack it has new feature of gb rom.

Hit like if i Helped... :good:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] chongns:
flash the xxkpe than flash your stock rom
[Sprint LG Optimus G] ankurcshah:
Hello I was using swype beta and the trial version also. Now both of them say expired and I really need swype for texting. Any ideas on how to get it work?
[Sprint LG Optimus G] Whiplashh:
Buy it? Sorry, but if you are asking how to bypass a paid version, it isn't allowed to be discussion on XDA..

Sent from my LG-LS970
[Sprint LG Optimus G] zomgalama:
Buy the app.

It's literally only 1$, and it's personally my favorite keyboard on android.
[Sprint LG Optimus G] ankurcshah:
All right! Thank you
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] anerco:
if i want to do a factory reset because of unacceptable lags, would i lose the root?

should i do survival mode on supersu or other thing to make sure the root would still be there?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Skeetch79:
I believe as long as you have Superuser or SuperSU installed properly into the System directory and su within bin or xbin, you should be fine. Factory Resets wipe the Data partition, your settings and any Apps that you downloaded from the market. If you have SuperSu installed, you can check within its settings to see whether it is installed within System or not. If not, it might not be a bad idea to move it over. I have a Dev S4, so this isn't an issue for me, but everytime I have factory reset Root has been saved (Supersu is in System in my case) - the only thing I lost were any updates to Supersu after the Factory reset. Once you set up your gmail account, it should update SuperSu from the play store like normal.

You may also want to check out the app "fast reboot", "seeder" - which is found on XDA and a good cache cleaner. I use Sartory's "Cache Cleaner Legacy"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] anerco:
Actually Seeder really helping the lags. thank you for the information. i would try a factory reset my SU files are installed in the system.
[Sony Xperia L] mvxp:
I updated my Xperia U for android 4.2.2, but when I enable wifi, the phone turns off. Any suggestions? Sorry for the bad english, I'm using google translator.
[Sony Xperia L] Shivam Kuchhal:
Is this Xperia U forum?
[Sony Xperia L] mvxp:
Im sorry man... my tel is xperia L, error of google translator.
[Sony Xperia L] flatex:
how did you updated it? flashtool, pc compation, sony update service?

Anyways, i recommend you to flash the rom with flashtool, wiping data and cache
[Sony Xperia L] mvxp:
FlashTool, i select data,cache and baseband...
[Sony Xperia L] mvxp:
Guys, i flash rom again, and solved my problem, thx all.
[HTC One S] aneeshcphilip:
hi guys,

its for one of my friends htc one s.... i m new here... please help...

problem starts with home screen toggle without touching home button.... flashed viper rom.... after 3-4 months problem came back... but after that tried diff roms and nothing helped him.... so he tried something and formatted his /cache, /data, /sdcard and /system, after that nothing was there... "error mounting sdcard"... he panicked and gave it to me....

so he gave it to me, i started reading here and tried the trick(go back to stock recovery+factory reset+clear storage+cwm recovery)... and it worked...but the problem is it wont mount automatically... and it will be in unmounted state, i manually have to touch them to get it mounted... then tried to adb push rom.zip... cant push it as i m getting error "error: device offline"... "adb devices" command shows

"List of devices attached

HT24TW410910 offline"

please help me how to get rid of it???

because of this issue i tried to ruu but that too didnt work... error comes wen it starts formatting the device.... i think its because device not mounting the 4 partitions (/cache, /data, /sdcard and /system) automatically....

please see attachments...
[HTC One S] Flashalot:
ok if it was flashed with the leaked firmware then reinstall HTC drivers reboot computer and try again if it was not flashed on the be firmware then Format the sdcard in recovery then mount and put a new Rom on the phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ZachSteffens:
I got my GS4 4 days ago, managed to use the Root De La Vega to gain root. After much trial and error I finally found some posts about only being able to use SafeStrap to load TW roms on the phone.

Is there hope of anyone being able to figure out how to get around the locked bootloader and get CWM on there so we can flash something other than TW?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] michael3770:
On the same boat here

Can't wait
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ZachSteffens:
bump

Nothing?

I'm still inside my 14 day return window.

If I were to take it back, any suggestions on what I should replace it with? All the research I'm doing seems to indicate that Verizon is locking the bootloaders on all their flagship phones.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] douger1957:
They've been working on unlocking the bootloader since the phone came out in May, and you're looking for an answer in one day?

I strongly suspect that the phone companies would like to market their Android products to the same market that used to be dominated by Blackberry which implies a level of security that the corporate world can live with, and that most of their customers aren't interested in root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ZachSteffens:
I was fishing for a response from some with more information than I, not assuming it was going to be solved in 1 day because I asked the question...

Don't get your underwear in a twist.

It's a tall order for someone new to the community to distill all the information on this forum down to something digestible and understandable. To the best of my knowledge there is no quality single point of reference to get up to date on the progress of the efforts that are evolving. I was simply asking the question for those of us who don't have as much time as they'd like to devote to getting up to speed on these projects.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] douger1957:
If you think my underwear is twisted, you're lucky that other posters didn't get here first. :)

There's an excellent discussion on the state of the bootloader on the very first page of the "general" forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2500826